Cruises
All aspects of port business associated with the cruise ship industry. This includes announcements of home porting, contracts to build and operate cruise terminals and traffic figures for cruise ship and passenger per port/country. Leading cruise terminal operators include Global Ports Holding. Cruise ship operators in the Mediterranean include MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruises.
Global Ports Holding Plc – financial results for 2018
March 12, 2019 Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has reported its unaudited results for the twelve...
Cartagena port to double luxury cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Cartagena port expects to double the number of luxury cruise ships handled in 2019, exceeding the number of...
Portoferraio opens 2019 cruise season
Portoferraio, Elba, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Portoferraio port has launched the cruise season with the M/N Arethusa ship that brought its 49...
Pula port launches preparatory work for cruise terminal construction
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Croatia’s Pula port authority has launched a tender for geomechanical explorations of the marine...
Tenerife is Spain’s only large cruise port with traffic decline in January
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – In the first month of 2019, of the seven port authorities with the highest traffic of cruise passengers, in...
Melilla, Ceuta ports to develop joint projects
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The president of Melilla port authority, Miguel MarÃn, has met Ceuta counterpart, Juan Manuel Doncel to...
MSC considers construction of own luxury cruises terminal at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – MSC Cruises is interested in the construction of its own terminal for luxury cruises at Genoa port, the president...
Cádiz port to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Cádiz port expects to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019, with May being the month with the highest number of...
Fincantieri-built Costa Venezia comes into service
Monfalcone, February 28, 2019 – Today, at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, in the presence of Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime...
Palermo port’s cruise traffic rises 25.8% in 2018
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Palermo port recorded a 25.8% surge in the number of cruise passengers in 2018, Pasqualino Monti,...
Sète port to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Port de Sète’s cruise season expects to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up from 115,000...
Italy’s MSC to double cruise passenger numbers at Livorno port in 2019
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has said it plans to double the number of cruise passengers...
Constanta port hosts Medcruise meeting to promote Black Sea cruise industry
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 24, 2019 – National Company Maritime Ports Administration S.A. Constanta has hosted the February 22, 2018,...
Italy identifies three potential ports for handling cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Italy’s government has identified the ports of Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia as...
Santander port expects 4,500 cruise passengers in 2019
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Santander port expects the arrival of more than 4,500 cruise passengers this year. There are five calls...
Andalusian ports move about 1 million cruise passengers in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Andalusia has become one of the main strategic points for cruise tourism in Spain. Last year, a total...
Cruise business starts return to Odessa port
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – The Greek company Aegean Experience Maritime Co Ltd and the German Phoenix Reisen company will both...
A Coruña port expects 190,000 cruise passengers in 2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – A Coruña port has raised expectations for 2019 for record cruise passenger numbers, which predict...
Trenitalia to start operation of line linking Rome to Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Italian company Trenitalia plans to start the operation of a cruise passenger service...
Cartagena port handles first double cruise call for 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Cartagena port has the first double cruise call of the year of the planned 28 for 2019. Early in the...